First, I want to share my big announcement - I'm on the Creative Scrapper's Design Team! It's my first time on a team and pretty fantastic to be designing alongside so many talents scrappers that I respect. I'm already hard at work designing layouts for the upcoming sketch challenges, which I'm excited to reveal in the coming months. I love how I manifested this goal just a few short months ago and it's come to fruition. It all began with a Brene Brown art journaling class that renewed my excitement for paper crafting, helped me find mixed media, and inspired me to create this blog. I can't wait to see what's next on this creative journey.

Here's my next layout, Unicorns, which I've created as a guest designer for Paper Secrets. This photo was taken during this year's pride on the Big Gay Boat Ride where we went to watch drag queen Bianca Del Rio perform. We also threw a rainbows and unicorn party, which was pretty much my childhood dream come true. I had so much fun party prepping for weeks in advance. It was a great excuse to dress up, complete with a homemade rainbow tutu for me and unicorn horn headbands for everyone.

I started this rainbow background by adding clear gesso to white paper. After it dried, I added drops from a big array of spray inks (mostly Dylusions and Color Shine), mixed the colors with watercolor pen, and dabbed some away with a paper towel.

Next I dug out all my paper scraps and started rolling them, and rolling, and rolling some more. This is the longest it's ever taken me to complete a page and I'm a pretty slow scrapper to start with. Excuse the poor lighting on these background photos. I snapped these shots quickly in my craft room, which has poor lighting. Also, I'm taking a photography class in a couple weeks and I'm looking forward to learning more to improve my scrapbook photography skills. I need the help, especially with the rainy sunless days quickly approaching.

Here's some closeups of the finished page with journaling, thickers, some buttons from my crafting stash, stitching on the top and bottom, a few BasicGrey chipboard pieces, and some Heidi Swapp embellishments.

Here's the sketch from Paper Secrets, which inspired my layout. Play along to win a $20 coupon off your next purchase of $20 or more in their store.